Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Today’s chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and children, is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world. These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution. President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing. The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable attack.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

...when
statistics show that as many as 40% of the nation’s homeless youth are
gay or transgender, compared to 3-5% of the overall youth population, we
have to acknowledge that we’re facing a crisis. The disparity suggests
that gay and transgender youth stand a much higher chance of becoming
homeless because of abuse, neglect and familial rejection due to sexual
orientation or gender identity that drive them to the streets.The kids
on the Christopher Street Pier that day, and the other gay and
transgender youth living on the streets who make up the 40% have done
nothing wrong, other than being born the way they were supposed to be.
And because of who they are, these kids have been forced to leave their
homes, subjected to abuse or worse.

Homophobic
clergy can be seen to be the major factor when parents kick their kids
out of the house, forcing them to be homeless, because their children
came out to them, thinking that they could trust their parents to
understand and unconditionally love them. Indeed, this is the way it
would be were it not for homophobic clergy's influence in lying about
same-sex attraction and love!

All
too many people believe the lies emanating from the ignorance and/or
hatred of these clergy, and that is one of the reasons why churches
should not enjoy tax exempt status, and why one of the best methods of
activism is to choose one homophobic church in a given city or
jurisdiction and consistently, and continuously, picket that church
every Sunday during their services, telling people that that church is
preaching a false Gospel, and is diametrically opposed to Jesus'
teachings.

Homophobic
clergy are erroneously felt to be speaking for God, and erroneously
felt to be correctly interpreting the Bible! These assumptions are not
true! And any parent who would kick their Gay child out of the house is
engaging in the demonic, as is any clergy who says that being Gay is
"disordered" and is a "sin."

Just
because someone turns his collar around doesn't necessarily make
him/her a person of God! He/she might well be working for the devil!

Burlington, Vt. – Truth Wins Out called for swift justice today after
two teenage girls in a five-month relationship were shot in a Portland,
Texas park with one of the girls dying from head injuries.
Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Christine Chapa, 18, were found in
knee-deep grass in a nature area in Portland on Saturday. Olgin, who
recently moved to Corpus Christi, died; Chapa, of Sinton, was taken to
the hospital where she had surgery and is listed in serious but stable
condition, according to local NBC affiliate kristv.com.

“We call on the police and public officials in Portland
to ensure that justice is served and the savages behind this sadistic
slaying are placed behind bars,” said Truth Wins Out Executive Director
Wayne Besen. “We are deeply saddened by the heartbreak and horror that
just occurred in Texas. We hope that Chapa fully recovers and our
thoughts are with both families in this tragic time.”

Truth Wins Out is a nonprofit organization that fights anti-LGBT
extremism. TWO specializes in turning information into action by
organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality.

Recommended Reading

Veteran Ben LaGuer

Let me finally return to Dwight Macdonald and the responsibility of intellectuals. Macdonald quotes an interview with a death-camp paymaster who burst into tears when told that the Russians would hang him. "Why should they? What have I done?" he asked. Macdonald concludes: "Only those who are willing to resist authority themselves when it conflicts too intolerably with their personal moral code, only they have the right to condemn the death-camp paymaster." The question, "What have I done?" is one that we may well ask ourselves, as we read each day of fresh atrocities in Vietnam—as we create, or mouth, or tolerate the deceptions that will be used to justify the next defense of freedom.

– Chomsky, The Responsibility of Intellectuals 1967

Words to Remember:

"Juris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere; alterum non laedere; suum cuique tribuere"(These are the precepts of the law: To live honorably; to hurt nobody; to render to every one his due.)

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution

Never Forgotten; Sadly Missed

Lawrence King

GLBT Legends

Paul McMahon and Ralph Hodgdon in 2007

"If you want to be important -- wonderful. If you want to be recognized -- wonderful. If you want to be great -- wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness." -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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